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ATU To Dedicate Browning Hall

Times Record Staff

Arkansas Tech University officials plan to formally dedicate Browning Hall on the main Russellville campus at 11:30 a.m. Thursday.

According to an ATU news release, Browning Hall, previously the Old Art Building, was built in 1913 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The ceremony will be at the south side of Browning Hall, 1505 N. Boulder Ave.

In December, the ATU trustees voted to rename the building in memory of William Elmo Browning, a 1937 graduate who financially supported various university initiatives, ATU’s baseball program, the athletic department and the university’s Return to Glory capital campaign. In 1997, Browning established the William Elmo Browning Scholarship.

ATU awarded Browning its Presidential Fellow medal in 2002. He was the first person to receive the award. Browning died in 2010.